Kansas fires Charlie Weis
 

Charlie Weis was fired as Kansas' football coach, the team announced Sunday.

Clint Bowen will be the interim head coach, according to athletic director Sheahon Zenger.

"I normally do not favor changing coaches mid-season," Zenger said in a release. "But I believe we have talented coaches and players in this program, and I think this decision gives our players the best chance to begin making progress right away.

"I appreciate what Coach Weis did with several facets of our football program. But we have not made the on-the-field progress we believe we should. I believe new leadership gives our coaches and players the best chance to make a fresh start."

Weis was in the third year of a five-year deal.

Kansas, 2-2 on the season, lost their most recent game on Saturday, a 23-0 shutout to Texas.

So there's that...

"Decided schematic advantage."

Sorry for repost.

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Penetration

IT WINS FOOTBALL GAMES!

WE LANDED ON THE MOON?!

This is the standard we have at KU. Weis should have been gone last year. Now hire a real coach and not a bandaid.

The good news is Mrs. Clint Bowen is pretty good looking(former Miss Kansas).

List of pics or it didn't happen...

Weis made a ton of money off of Tom Brady and the Patriots D.

You have to really suck to get fired mid season at Kansas. LMAO

But why? He was doing so well....

It's amazing that we live in days where losing to Texas gets you fired.

So, who's the next Fat Bastard?

Fat Bastard???

I think you're confused, so I fixed your post.

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Should be a good selling point for the next coach. $2 mil per win.

I would just like a coach that could go 6-6 on average every year. Is that too much to ask?

Guy is the worst of the patriots trio. Hasn't gone anywhere and been even slightly successful.

He's one of the top paid coaches in the country and he won't have to work another day in his life. He's collecting big bank from KU and ND. 'Merica.

How about 8-4? With the occasional playoff appearance. Why not?

He shouldn't have ever left the NFL.

FYP

This tweet is 110% incorrect.

I don't know if I'm too late and Kansas has already identified someone new to be terrible at coaching football for 2 million dollars a year.. If not, I'd like to throw my hat in the ring.

Or, it could be the two conference wins in his entire tenure. Granted, you've only had three over the course of the entire Obama administration, so I guess Charlie had you guys on the upswing.

Why isn't the AD on the hot seat now as well?

Pretty much everyone saw Weis as a doomed hire from the start at Kansas.

KU still plays football??? The big 12 is so irrelevant these days that I totally forgot.

He is, and they're going to force him to use a search agency on this hire and they're also going to make the search more public than the last one incl more donor input. Zenger isn't making this hire, it'll be done by committee.

Tom Brady is a living stimulus package for shitty coaches, players, and personnel men. The guy has to have brought various shitbags over $200 million in undeserved earnings.

Yep

You speak much truth.

just tell me Dave Campo is okay... TELL ME!!?

Since 2010

3 head coaches

2 conferences wins

I am not sure that is actually true in the case of Charlie Weiss.

I think he played a big role in developing a 6th round pick into a franchise QB, and actually did a great job of working with Matt Cassel's limitations and getting solid production as the Chiefs OC.

Charlie Weiss, IMO, is a perfect illustration of the Peter Principle at work.

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Agreed. Weis is a great OC.

Sirius Radio sports guys saying it won't surprise them to see Weis at Arrowhead tomorrow helping the Patriots.

At least the Patriots stench is finally washed from my beloved football teams.

Good call.

Guys like Lebeau, Capers, Weiss, and Norm-the-neck were all better coordinators than HC's...

I think Charlie Weis is actually a solid offensive mind. I'd hire him as an OC. He did a solid job under Parcells before he ever went to New England... and he actually played to Matt Cassel's strengths and made him look decent. And he was the guy Tom Brady actually came in under.

This team will have everything flushed from it in another season or two...

He was successful as an O.C. in K.C.. Guys like

Weis
Crennel
Turner
Capers

are quality coordinators who aren't cut out to be head coaches. There is a lot of that to be found in football.

Edit: Rausch beat me to it and named the same four coordinators, too.

Committee recommendations with input from donors sounds like a recipe for disaster.

Saul is back!

No surprise he can't stay away from KU football! Welcome back Saul!

I think that makes us football-Eskimoe-brothers...or something...

Hearing a rumor that Kansas pulled the trigger now because supposedly Snyder is retiring after this season, and they want to get their choice made now versus having to do it at the same time as KSU. Interesting if true.

Charlie said he had done everything he can for the program, and now after being dismissed, he just wants to return home to Florida to spend more time with his family, especially his love child Chaz Bono.

Neither program stands a chance. KSU is ****ed without Snyder.


KU might get lucky and get a flash like Mangino, but he will leave as soon as a better program (which is almost every program in the US) calls.

KU has a better chance than KSU, IMO.

I agree.

I think KU should recruit a legacy, somebody who can bring some excitement to the Lawrence, and maybe do some Porky Piggin' on the sidelines. How about David Jaynes? What's he up to these days???

Reid and Weis are pretty close friends. Charlie was at Vikings game and opener against Titans.

I doubt the guy works the rest of the year and just sits on his stack of cash rolling in, but I could see him working with Reid in some consultant capacity if he had the itch.

Didn't Weis have a falling out with McDaniels? I doubt he goes back to New England.

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Jaynes went 3-0 vs Mizzou.

Good job kansas

Flushed a turd

How is this important?

Rick Neuheisel is available...just saying.

Weis for AD. Could he do any worse than what they have?

Yeah, I was walking around the club level and came around a curve and nearly leveled him. It took me a minute to figure out who it was, out of context and all.

He was also arrested for indecent exposure for unwrapping his Baby Jay and whizzing in the fountains at Crown Center!

I wonder what Bob Davis is going to say about all this?

The whole country laughed when he was hired, and he has kept everyone laughing the whole time. Nice work Cholly, you'll be a tough act to follow.

Jaynes was the top QB recruit in the country and originally signed with Bear Bryant. I suspect if he pissed in a Tuscaloosa fountain, hordes of those crazies would jump in and splash it on their foreheads like holy water.

So is weis at Waldo pizza right now telling everyone it's haleys fault

He's a bum. Owes his entire career to Tom Brady and Brady Quinn

He was also the very first draft pick in the World Football League.

Why was he hired in the first place?

I know money talks, but I would never jump ship from pros to college, especially in this day and age when the college guys are getting hired and fired as seemingly often as the pro guys are.

Doomed from the start. Pro style offenses don't work in college unless there is elite talent.

The search committee idea seemed to work out pretty well for KU's basketball team in 2003.

New coach must be under two balloons. No more fat ass coaches please.

Mangino's team in 2007 went 12-1 and went to the Orange Bowl. If they hire a fat ass coach and he does that, it's OK with me.

Whut?...

I think I would go college route over pro. Less stress, less work, still make about the same and the chance to be a truly a living mortal at college.

I mean, just be being alive, you're a living mortal. It's not that hard. :D

Incorrect. He made Cassel look serviceable.

Noble Prize, please.

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He was as close to a 'name' as they could get?

K-State will be fine - as long as we break ground on the new Vanier complex this offseason.